I know the term from the famous Marx Bros* movie but I never knew until looking it up now that ‘duck soup’ was a slang term for an easy opponent or easy job.
*which I have never seen so that is probably a large part of my ignorance.Report
I’ve seen that one about a dozen times (it doesn’t age!) and I had no idea that that was a slang term.
Also fun fact WGN is of course not the TV station but it’s also not a radio station yet, (not until the 1920’s) – it’s the original source of the moniker Worlds Greatest Newspaper, the Chicago Tribune.Report
Lastly someone crossed the timestreams between Briggs, Pat Hughes, and Derek the Die Workwear guy.Report
I know the term from the famous Marx Bros* movie but I never knew until looking it up now that ‘duck soup’ was a slang term for an easy opponent or easy job.
*which I have never seen so that is probably a large part of my ignorance.Report
I’ve seen that one about a dozen times (it doesn’t age!) and I had no idea that that was a slang term.
But of course it is.Report
Also fun fact WGN is of course not the TV station but it’s also not a radio station yet, (not until the 1920’s) – it’s the original source of the moniker Worlds Greatest Newspaper, the Chicago Tribune.Report
Lastly someone crossed the timestreams between Briggs, Pat Hughes, and Derek the Die Workwear guy.Report